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Can you get hepatitis c from a scratch on a metal surface someone else with hep c was scratched by ?

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Dr. Hunter Handsfield answered

Specializes in Infectious Disease

No risk: It takes more intense blood exposure than this to transmit the hepatitis C virus. You are at little or no risk if you do not share drug injection equipment with others, or other intensive blood exposure. Don't worry about it.

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Answered 9/5/2017

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